Anna's review
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
by Flannery O'Connor
Anna's review
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Anna's review
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These are disturbing, twisted, dark portraits of life in the Deep South during the 1950s. It made the South seem even creepier than it already was.
The story that particularly struck me was that of an awkward naïve seeming bible salesman and a jaded nihilistic PHD in Philosophy, who happened to have a wooden leg and a heart condition. She thought of him as a country bumpkin. He seduced her, stealing her heart and her leg; saying “You’re not so smart, I’ve believed in nothing all my life.”
There was also the tale of a grandfather and grandson who went to Atlanta and got lost. Terrified that they would be stuck in a city full of blacks, they went through a religious awakening. Or of the little boy who took a preacher literally and sought heaven in the cold baptismal waters of the river.
All of these stories have the undercurrent of religious reawakening. Although given the bitter darkness of the tales, it always comes across as sarcastic. I wonder if O’Conner wasn’t ...more
The story that particularly struck me was that of an awkward naïve seeming bible salesman and a jaded nihilistic PHD in Philosophy, who happened to have a wooden leg and a heart condition. She thought of him as a country bumpkin. He seduced her, stealing her heart and her leg; saying “You’re not so smart, I’ve believed in nothing all my life.”
There was also the tale of a grandfather and grandson who went to Atlanta and got lost. Terrified that they would be stuck in a city full of blacks, they went through a religious awakening. Or of the little boy who took a preacher literally and sought heaven in the cold baptismal waters of the river.
All of these stories have the undercurrent of religious reawakening. Although given the bitter darkness of the tales, it always comes across as sarcastic. I wonder if O’Conner wasn’t ...more
